#361: Paul Arriola joins the pod

Scuffed | U.S. soccer, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Sports, Usmnt, Men's National Team, American Soccer, Us Soccer, Soccer, Mls, U17 National Team, U20 National Team, Youth National Teams, Yanks Abroad

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Paul Arriola is gonna hit 50 caps tonight, most likely. He sat down with Sanjay Sujanthakumar yesterday to discuss how a cancer doctor helped persuade him to make his return to the national team for the camp he's in now. Plus a detailed discussion of how he learned he wouldn't be going to the World Cup, how he came up in southern California, his signing with Tijuana as a youngster and who brought the best party vibes at his wedding.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Scuff Podcast. This is Sanjay and I'm joined here by US Men's National
0:20.9	team in FC Dallas winger Paul, Paul Arayola.
0:23.4	Paul, thanks so much for coming on the show.
0:24.8	Yeah, man. Thanks for having me.
0:26.7	So I'm going to read some of my questions and mix in some questions from listeners as
0:30.0	well.
0:31.0	So we're going to start off with Sabrina in Maine says,
0:34.0	Congrats on your recent marriage.
0:35.6	Which former teammates at the ceremony or reception brought the best party vibes?
0:40.6	Ooh, the best party vibes you know I would say Sebastian Lajet brought some great
0:46.6	party vibes that you know I I didn't I didn't feel too much of it you know just like in your
0:52.1	wedding you're just all over the
0:53.1	place but I definitely heard from from other people that he was definitely he was
0:57.6	definitely given it his all at the wedding which was nice and then uh... another guy Lucas Bartlett
1:04.3	uh... he's a draft pick from fc dallas last year
1:07.3	uh... he's he's always a life of the party love that guy uh... and uh... yeah he was he was also amazing.
1:14.4	That's awesome. Okay so quite the juxtaposition of emotions between the way your
1:19.3	off season ended and the way it started.
1:21.4	Greg didn't picky to go to the World Cup but at the first
1:24.0	opportunity to play for the national team you're right back. Was that a hard decision
1:28.0	for you? Why or why not? Yeah, it was it was it was 100% a hard decision, right? I mean, you just, you know, you've, I spent the last
1:40.1	seven years being a part of the national team wanting to go to a World Cup right and
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